I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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May you live all the days of your life.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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